Principal Product Designer
Block, Inc. is a technology company building tools for economic empowerment, operating a portfolio of financial brands including Square, Cash App, Afterpay, TIDAL, Bitkey, and Proto. It serves sellers, consumers, artists, and bitcoin users through payments, banking, buy-now-pay-later, music streaming, and bitcoin self-custody and mining products.
About Block, Inc.
Block, Inc. builds technology aimed at increasing access to the global economy. Its brands each unlock different aspects of the economy: Square makes commerce and financial services accessible to sellers; Cash App is an easy way to spend, send, and store money; Afterpay (Clearpay in the UK) helps customers manage spending over time; TIDAL is a music platform empowering artists as entrepreneurs; Bitkey is a self-custody bitcoin wallet; and Proto builds open, accessible bitcoin mining hardware and services. Block has been a long-time advocate for bitcoin, integrating bitcoin buying/selling and Lightning Network payments into Cash App and Square, funding open-source bitcoin infrastructure through Spiral (including the Lightning Development Kit), and engaging in bitcoin policy advocacy through groups like COPA, the Digital Energy Council, the Crypto Council for Innovation, and the Texas Blockchain Council. The company also runs a significant open source program (contributing to projects like Goose, an on-machine AI developer agent, OkHttp, Retrofit, gRPC, Envoy, and MySQL) and an AI research effort, including co-founding the Agentic AI Foundation with Anthropic and OpenAI. Block serves individual consumers, small and medium-sized businesses/merchants, artists, and developers.
Skills
About the Role
You will lead ambitious, vision-heavy design projects for core Point of Sale experiences from early vision through shipped product. You will use prototypes to explore and communicate ideas, build internal and cross-functional support, and bring projects to life. You will collaborate with design, product, and engineering leadership to shape strategy and execution, while elevating product vision and design quality.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of AI and its application to design processes and product experiences
- Strong visual and interaction design skills
- Prototyping ability
- Systems-thinking mindset
- Understanding of how motion can elevate product experiences
- Ability to collaborate with design, product, and engineering partners
Responsibilities
- Lead vision-heavy design projects for core Point of Sale experiences
- Use prototypes to visualize and explore ideas, build support, and bring projects to life
- Collaborate with design, product, and engineering leadership to shape strategy and execution
Benefits
- Remote work
- Medical insurance
- Flexible time off
- Retirement savings plans
- Modern family planning